Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
Because the attribute "wet," as we define it, applies to the substance we label as "water."
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Why is Water Wet?
- Thread starter CynthiaCypher
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Because the attribute "wet," as we define it, applies to the substance we label as "water."
Ouroboros
Coincidentia oppositorum
The metaphysical magical wet-essence makes it so.
For the same reason fire is hot. It's entirely coincidence.
Gordian Knot
Being Deviant IS My Art.
I've only been here a short time, and I find you ask the most unusual questions. Further I do not understand what it is you are attempting to discern from these questions. The actual answers themselves seem to have little value to you, far as I can tell.
Taken together, I'm sure you have a point to make. Why not just come out and ask it? I cannot be the only one who is curious!
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
kashmir
Well-Known Member
I remembered when I seen the video of a scientist putting that powder on top of the water and then he put his hand in and it came out dry.
I still can not grasp that water isn't actually wet at all and if you do not break through the surface, you just displace the water only and it doesn't get you wet.
Mind boggling.
I still can not grasp that water isn't actually wet at all and if you do not break through the surface, you just displace the water only and it doesn't get you wet.
Mind boggling.
Desert Snake
Veteran Member
the mentos in soda is what amazes me.
Gjallarhorn
N'yog-Sothep
In short, she likes to demonize science and atheism because she finds it boring.
kashmir
Well-Known Member
There's a video on youtube where a 7-8 year old girl was tired of her mom always setting her up with that joke so she said she would help her "get daddy".
Unbeknownst to the kid, mom had put a hidden camera in the kitchen, already sabotaged the soda bottle and the poor kid got it good that time.
Epic.
That is child abuse at its finest, hidden behind hook, line and sinker.
That poor poor poor child, lmfao
CynthiaCypher
Well-Known Member
So wet is nothing but a coincidence?
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
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dust1n
Zindīq
In this context, wet is nothing more than a description for similar perceptions like that of contact with water. If the question was why water is wet, as in the purpose, then there is no purpose. If we asked the question the means by which perceptions arise in such contact with water, that would be one worthy of scientific investigation. It's pretty amazing how complicated the process will be. For example, when are fingers prune up to being in water for a bit, it's a neurological response that contracts the muscle. How exactly do we translate a consistent feeling of water in a selection of interconnected neurons. How many different elements of water can be examined and memorized by the brain. Somewhere between understanding what water is and what our perceptions are, then the more elaborate an explanation one is going to be able to give to the question of reason (as in why something happens) or causality.
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John Doe
Member
Sir Doom
Cooler than most of you
Because that's what we called that.
Why speaks to purpose.
John Doe
Member
Water is wet on purpose ?
psychoslice
Veteran Member
Wet is just a word, a label, it could have been the word dry, and the word wet could have been the word for what we feel as dry, its a word for the sensation of the senses.
FunctionalAtheist
Hammer of Reason
Water is NOT wet! Wet is being satured with or covered by water (or other liquid). If a bucket is full of water, the bucket is wet, not the water. If you put your hand in the water, your hand is wet, not the water. Water cannot saturate or cover itself.